Boko Haram

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• 5/3/2020
  

  The Untold Story of Boko Haram’s Origins

  by Jacob Zenn

  Researchers who view Boko Haram as a Nigerian unsurgency need to understand its history as part of pan-African Islamist networks; responses to extremism must work across national borders.

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• 2-15-15
  

  Boko Haram Is Hardly a New Phenomenon in Nigeria

  by Moses Ochonu

  The surprise is it’s in formal rebellion against western education its members never received.

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• 6-9-14
  

  Why I Can't Let the Boko Haram Kidnappings Be Forgotten

  by Martin Goldsmith

  There are moments in our history when we have to act as if we really believe that we are indeed our brothers’ and our sisters’ keeper.  This is one of them. 

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• SOURCE: The Japan Times
  5-27-14
  

  Understanding Boko Haram

  by John Edward Philips

  Boko Haram, as many know by now, means “Western Education is forbidden” in the Hausa language of northern Nigeria and neighboring countries.

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• 5-12-14
  

  Why We're Only Now Paying Attention to Boko Haram Is a Disgrace

  by Timothy R. Furnish

  Nigeria’s position on the fault-line between Christian and Muslim civilization appears not just increasingly precarious, but dangerously unsustainable.